Daily Archives: Nov 14, 2017

“We are hoping that we can negotiate with them and that they can give us some interest relief after which we will make formal arrangements to pay back the interest.”

Conroy “Connie” Jones, who was wanted by police in connection with allegations of wounding, is now in custody. Jones was accompanied by his Lawyer,...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov. 14, CMC –  Regional heads of government, finance ministers , central bank governors and private sector representatives are scheduled to arrive here for the sixth International Monetary Fund (IMF) High level Caribbean forum  to be held here on Thursday

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, Nov. 14, CMC – The Barbados based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) will be lending the British Virgin Islands US$3million to clean up the territory in the aftermath of three major weather events earlier this year.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, CMC –  Three members of the US Congress are preparing legislation that will allow all Haitians with Temporary Proteted Status (TPS) to apply for permanent residency even as the Trump administration weighs whether to end the programme.

BONN,  Nov. 14, CMC – The European Union and 79 countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group on Tuesday reaffirmed their shared commitment to the implementation of the Paris Agreement and urged all Parties to ensure concrete progress at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP23) taking place here.

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) have setup a post emergency disaster project, to assist Caribbean countries recover after hurricanes Irma and Maria.

The changes to the Firearms Amendment Bill will be gazetted tomorrow (Wednesday).

We are not using the word “Venus” as a planetary reference, neither are we making reference to astrological signs or the horoscope. Nay, our use of the term “Venus” is as a representation of all women. Of course, we are drawing on the 1992 book by John Gray, the American relationship expert who suggests in his magnum opus, MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS, that men (Mars) and women (Venus) are distinctly different and the sexes respond to problems and arrive at solutions in vastly different ways. Aha! Arrive at solutions – “solutions” is the operative word! Seems, in our current political mileau, we are bedeviled by mounting problems, and desperately in search of solutions, and the body politic appears increasingly inclined to give Venus a chance to tackle those problems and come up with meaningful and workable solutions. Venus is ascendant!

Cricket’s World governing body, the ICC, will now await recommendations from